Senior Member of Technical Staff, AI Research

Salesforce

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Work type
Remote
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Salary
$148,500–$223,900 / yr
Posted
135 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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This role $186k
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Salesforce is the world''s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform, offering cloud-based software for sales, service, marketing, analytics, and application development. Industry: Enterprise Software & Cloud Computing

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TL;DR · Senior Member of Technical Staff, AI Research

As a Senior Member of Technical Staff, AI Research, you will join the Salesforce AI Research team to incubate a next-generation agentic AI platform. You will collaborate with research scientists, software engineers, and product managers to design, implement, and iterate on agentic AI systems that integrate into human workflows. Your daily responsibilities include building production-grade software, maintaining shared system contexts, and evaluating code for security and performance. The role requires proficiency in Python, C++, or Java, along with experience in deep learning frameworks, Docker, and cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure. You will work specifically on LLM systems involving tool use, planning, memory, and multi-step reasoning. This position focuses on the technical challenge of developing reliable agentic workflows and advanced prompt engineering to solve complex problems within the agentic AI domain.

What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and iterate on agentic AI systems to integrate seamlessly into human workflows.
  • Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices and AI-driven development tools.
  • Develop and maintain a shared system context of designs, constraints, and standards for reliable AI operation.
  • Critically evaluate both human and AI-generated code for correctness, security, and performance.
  • Implement and debug model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines using deep learning frameworks.
  • Deploy machine learning systems across cloud platforms using Docker and other infrastructure tools.
  • Create advanced prompts to ensure AI outputs are reliable, secure, and production-ready.

What we're looking for

  • Strong proficiency in Python with solid experience in C++ and/or Java.
  • Proven track record of building production-quality systems and high-quality, production-grade software.
  • Deep knowledge of machine learning fundamentals and hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks.
  • Experience implementing and debugging model training, evaluation, and inference pipelines.
  • Practical experience with LLMs, agentic workflows, prompting, orchestration, and evaluation for LLM-based systems.
  • Experience deploying ML systems using Docker and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Advanced prompt engineering skills to create precise, structured prompts and maintain system context.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, and system design.

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